Ecumenical Patriarch Alexandros

Ecumenical Patriarch Alexandros (237-337) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 314 to 337, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Metrophanes and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Pavlos I.

Biography
Alexandros was born in 237 AD in Calabria, Italy, Roman Empire to a family of Orthodox Christian Greeks. He lived in a monastery when he was young, and Ecumenical Patriarch Metrophanes appointed him as a vicar to represent him while he was bedridden. In 314 he succeeded Metrophanes as Bishop of the See of Byzantium, and Emperor Constantine the Great of the Byzantine Empire made Alexandros the first Archbishop of Byzantium.